Bartlett's now a lobbyist -- the president and CEO of The Financial Services Roundtable, a gig he's held for the past 12 years. And, specifically, reports The Times, he's out to squish the part of Dodd-Frank that limits the fees banks charge retailers on debit-card purchases. Which is what Bartlett's paid quite handsomely to do since, as The Times notes, he's "the head of a group representing 100 of the nation's largest financial institutions." Here's how young Ben Protess recaps Bartlett's post-mayoral life:

After serving as mayor of Dallas, Mr. Bartlett landed the top spot at the roundtable in 1999. He said he had been hired in part to "secure passage" of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which repealed some of the Glass-Steagall restrictions on banks set after the Great Depression. The law, signed in 1999, allowed investment banks and commercial banks to merge, creating the Wall Street powerhouses that eventually proved too big to fail during the crisis.